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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
travelers with a tool that enables them to do something that they can’t do on their own.” Leiman and Ogden went on a road trip after graduation, visiting VLJ manufacturers in Albuquerque (Eclipse Aviation), Denver (Adam Aircraft), Wichita (Cessna), and View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
incorrectly. Sorry for being picky on a seemingly minor point, and I promise not to take on American pronunciation of a host of words! James Sinclair (MBA ’82) São Paulo, Brazil Dean McArthur Praised I did not have the privilege of being...
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- 2017
- Book
The Language of Global Success: How a Common Tongue Transforms Multinational Organizations
By: Tsedal Neeley
For nearly three decades, English has been the lingua franca of cross-border organizations, yet studies on corporate language strategies and their importance for globalization have been scarce. In The Language of Global Success, Tsedal Neeley provides an... View Details
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Communication;
Residency;
Corporate Strategy;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Brazil;
France;
Germany;
Indonesia;
Japan;
Taiwan;
Thailand;
United States
Neeley, Tsedal. The Language of Global Success: How a Common Tongue Transforms Multinational Organizations. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017.
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
parameter is calibrated to local interest rates. A quantitative exercise calibrated to Brazil finds welfare gains of the optimal fiscal policy to be economically substantial, and the optimal rule to not entail a countercyclical fiscal...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
detail, Argentina has demonstrated over the last 50 years a unique ability to disappoint optimistic expectations. A particular concern now is the educational system, once upon a time one of Latin America’s best, but which some indexes now suggest has fallen behind even...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
better respond to market forces. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1413775 The Great Leap Forward: The Political Economy of Education in Brazil, 1889-1930 Authors:André Martínez-Fritscher, Aldo Musacchio, and Martina Viarengo...
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Martha Lagace
- July 2004 (Revised July 2020)
- Case
Hines Goes to Rio
By: Arthur I Segel and Ricardo Reisen De Pinho
The Torre Almirante office tower, Hines' newest project in Rio de Janeiro, was a 36-story, Class AA office tower with an adjoining 420-stall parking structure and a preserved 14-story historic facade. It was completely different from anything that had previously been...
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Keywords:
Property;
Design;
Construction;
Buildings and Facilities;
Risk Management;
Problems and Challenges;
Real Estate Industry;
Brazil;
New York (city, NY)
Segel, Arthur I., and Ricardo Reisen De Pinho. "Hines Goes to Rio." Harvard Business School Case 805-001, July 2004. (Revised July 2020.)
- April 1989
- Teaching Note
Roles and Relationships of Business and Government, Teaching Note
By: George C. Lodge
Teaching Note for (9-388-159).
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- December 2013 (Revised October 2014)
- Case
The Munich Oktoberfest: From Local Tradition to Global Capitalism
By: Juan Alcacer, Christian Bettinger and Andreas Philippi
Oktoberfest, an annual festival held in Munich (Germany) for more than 200 years, has grown in recent decades into a hugely popular event that attracts 7 million visitors annually, a large proportion of which are foreign. In fact, Oktoberfest's global appeal is so...
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Keywords:
Value Creation;
Product Positioning;
Marketing Channels;
Global Strategy;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Ohio;
Munich;
Brazil;
Bangalore;
Beijing
Alcacer, Juan, Christian Bettinger, and Andreas Philippi. "The Munich Oktoberfest: From Local Tradition to Global Capitalism." Harvard Business School Case 714-439, December 2013. (Revised October 2014.)
- February 2012
- Article
A 'Core Periphery' Framework to Navigate Emerging Market Governments—Qualitative Evidence from a Biotechnology Multinational
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, James Geraghty and Tarun Khanna
We build on the emerging literature of influence-based models to study how multinational firms can navigate host governments. Our "core-periphery" framework posits that the actions that an MNC takes with actors in what we call the "periphery"—comprised of state,...
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Keywords:
Emerging Markets;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Business and Government Relations;
Power and Influence;
Framework;
Biotechnology Industry;
Massachusetts;
Brazil;
China;
Costa Rica;
France;
India
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, James Geraghty, and Tarun Khanna. "A 'Core Periphery' Framework to Navigate Emerging Market Governments—Qualitative Evidence from a Biotechnology Multinational." Global Strategy Journal 2, no. 1 (February 2012): 71–87.
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
exporting to 32 countries and had manufacturing plants in Brazil and Uruguay. As it continued its international expansion, should it follow the same vertical integration strategy in other countries, or should it develop its retail...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
313-095 Grupo ABC and Nizan Guanaes's Path from Brazil to the World Internationally recognized Brazilian Nizan Guanaes, co-founder of Grupo ABC, a rapidly growing global advertising firm ranked 18th in 2011, had aspirations to be in the...
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Anna Secino
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
to enroll 30,000 people in the United States, and two large pharmaceutical companies: AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford had a vaccine based on a chimpanzee adenovirus in Phase 3 trials in Brazil and South Africa, while US-based...
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- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
levels and frequency of default typical of emerging markets even if the household impatience parameter is calibrated to local interest rates. A quantitative exercise calibrated to Brazil finds welfare gains of the optimal fiscal policy to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
American woman and she said, "I wanted this job to be yours so badly, and you're obviously smart. You're well spoken, but you lacked executive presence." And I sulked about it for a while. I internalized it. And when Sodexo called again, they invited me to come to Sao...
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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
past. Now the big strikes lie elsewhere. The wildcatters of today travel the globe from Angola to Kazakhstan to the deep waters off the coast of Brazil in search of "elephant fields" with flow rates measuring in the thousands of barrels...
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- January 2022
- Case
Walmart Goes Global (A)
By: Juan Alcácer
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50918 Harvard Business School Case 516-020 Chilli Beans: Peace, Love, and Sunglasses This case illustrates how Chilli Beans became the most popular sunglasses retailer in Brazil and the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
overcome, and when a door closes another one often opens. Alan Horn (MBA 1971) Chairman, Walt Disney Studios Bottoming out in Brazil Five of the six businesses I’ve helped build over 32 years since HBS have been successful, with one...
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Walt Disney Studios